United Nations General Assembly A/HRC/45/44/Add.2 Distr.: General 21 August 2020 Original: English Human Rights Council Forty-fifth session 14 September–2 October 2020 Agenda item 9 Racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related forms of intolerance, follow-up to and implementation of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action Visit to Peru Report of the Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent *, ** Summary The Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent visited Peru from 25 February to 4 March 2020. In the present report, the Working Group describes the current legal, institutional and policy framework and the measures taken to prevent the racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia, Afrophobia and related intolerance that people of African descent face in Peru, underscoring positive developments and gaps in implementation. The Working Group also highlights good practices and the main challenges it identified, and makes concrete recommendations. * The summary of the report is being circulated in all official languages. The report itself, which is annexed to the summary, is being circulated in the language of submission only. ** Agreement was reached to publish the present report after the standard publication date owing to circumstances beyond the submitters’ control. GE.20-10967(E) 